Datapel WMS Reviews

-Creating multiple Purchase orders from one screen
- Inventory management
- Multiple locations
- Barcoding
- Reports
- Stocktake
- Despatch sales orders
- Can be Customized based on business requirements

- Would be great if Integrations with E-commerce platforms are ready and available to connect ( integrations are still possible but will be a custom job)

- Easy to use once you understand the system
- It gives us the ability to integrate MYOB with a Warehouse Management System.
- Integration between cloud based and server based applications.

- Unable to have multiple windows open at the same time. Specifically we are unable to access important information such as customer reports, item list and New Sales Order at the same time.
- Stock transfers are convoluted, and we are only able to do 1 item at a time.
- Special pricing doesn't show the profit margin per line.
- When confirming sales or purchases there should be an option to email reports. It would be handy if there was a script to open the email program, not just composing an email that sit in the outbox until the email program is manually opened.
- It would be great if there was more specific information on customers. i.e list of lines a customer purchases with the last time they ordered them, last purchase price and product margin; customer gp for the last 3 months
- Would be good if it had an integrated email client

The main reason we chose Datapel was due to it's integration with MYOB. Datapel manages all of the purchase order and sales order generation and then transfers the data automatically to MYOB. It is great for managing these processes and for keeping track of inventory and is extremely user friendly. The implementation process was very smooth and we didn't have any business down time. What we didn't expect was the massive impact that the system has had across all of our business processes and productivity. Datapel can be customised to meet the particular needs of any business. For example, we are a manufacturing company that exports globally and our customers all have different documentation and labelling requirements. The system can be designed to automatically generate different documents for different customers. There are so many other ways that the system has been customized to meet our specific needs.The feature that has had the biggest impact on our business is the ability to export information from the database to generate customized business specific reporting. We work regularly with a Datapel consultant to design reports that otherwise would have to be prepared manually. For example if we need to send a report to Head office regularly in a specific format, we can set the report up in excel and link the database to that report template to auto-populate.

The only thing that we have found difficult is that Datapel automatically assigns a work order reference in the assemblies module, and there is no ability to change it to your own reference.

Easy to raise POs and sales orders. Accurate tracking of inventory

Reporting options could be better
Very limited features for recording information although we do have an earlier version of Datapel so maybe it has improved

We love Datapel - WMS inventory and bin management ability to track inventory in the warehouse, multiple bins, and multiple warehouses. We enjoy the Pick and pack Smarts employed by the software. The Backorder functionality - for example identifying a percentage of an order that is stock allows us to make fast decisions on allocating or holding backorders. The Ability to export and import from xls / csv / paste functionality makes light work of lots of data. Email templates connected to customs forms expedite the communication process of stock availability / overdue / and other processesDatapel WMS's ability to overcome integration challenges with our front-end provider (E-Commerce Vision) is a testament to their technical knowledge and capacity.

Sometimes we get duplicate orders/invoices due to syncing issues between MYOB Account right Datapel. To remedy this, we run a reconciliation report once a week to review and remove duplicates. It would be convenient to cancel multiple sales orders in the system at one time.

We appreciated the ability for the package to integrate seamlessly with our MYOB Accounting software.

Would be nice if WMS could integrate with our Wordpress online shopping for receiving and processing orders.

Very easy to use. Invoices are well presented

Nothing happy customer with Datapel system

It has many options and is quite flexible in it's approach.

We have just started to use Datapel and have nothing to compare it to however so far so good

The software allows me to receive, allocate date, put into location product. This helps me track & trace product that goes to customers. Also by dating product I can track down which product needs to be moved first or needs to be moved. I can create codes or new lines of my own simply without having to ask for support to do it for me. It gives me a lot of control.
By batching product i can also track with confidence if i have some issues.

Integration was a bit of a mission although worth it in the end. When having a few users on at once there tends to be some lag and dropouts especially when other users do adjustments while others are on. Although runs smooth with less users. Emailing customers invoices is a bit time consuming buy emailing individually, although there probably is a bolt on function you could add to ease the emailing daily invoices in a single hit.
Different a little bit from MYOB, when entering a new sale it doesn't hint there are other invoices for the customer in the pipeline..Other than that I think its great for what i need..

Integration with our business was not as easy as I had hoped. However don't believe we ever had enough training to use all of the features of the program.

The integration with myob always created inventory issues. This was because we hadn't correctly moved stock one way or another, once again probably never understanding the correct integration process.

Support of the Datapel and Myob provider on a paid basis was essential for us, and I constantly felt like we needed so much more training. This service provider was amazing.

It is easy to use. When we faced problem occasionally, [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]
from Seasoft is very quick to attend to our needs. Therefore, we faced very little downtime.

1) For some transactions, there are discrepancies in the tax amount when they are replicated to MYOB.
2) Sales Reconciliation has to be performed daily to identify the above discrepancies to correct them in MYOB, but the Sales Reconciliation Report "MYOB Invoices NOT reconciled with WMS Sales" takes a long time to complete even when it is just for 1 day sales.
3) Under Stock Adjustment, after the list of items is selected and the quantities and batch numbers have been keyed in, at this point if you want to add another item, you will have to go back to the selection list but in doing so, all the quantities and batch numbers previously entered will be gone.
4) Credit Note: After credit note has been created under "Return Status" before entry of batch number, if you realised that there errors and you want to make any amendments at all, even in just a description like reference number, the area under discount will have strange percentage appearing, even though the total value is correct.

The Datapel WMS has a really simple to use interface. It handle all our warehouse pick pack and scanning needs with ease. The ability for us to plug in our web stores and mobile sales systems has been fantastic, now we can automate our entire process from order to printing of shipping labels.

In reality there is not much at all that we don't like about Datapel WMS
Its such a comprehensive WMS and dose its job so well that its the only piece of software that we haven't changed in the last 2 years of our cloud first digital transformation of the business.

Integration was quite seamless, teething issues were less than envisaged.
Training isn't too involved, so new staff can brought up to speed relatively quickly.
Critical for us was the multi location capability.

The Point of Sale module is quite dated and not ideally suited for our retail environment

Batch control amendment, transfer betwen bins locations and the easy of work orders

The latest update and myob are proving to be more challenging as some aspect changed.

It sync's seamlessly with MYOB and has become our source of truth

Sometimes the software needs to be customised to function/fit our business process. This can be timely and costly.

The ease of Order tracking from start to finish can help advise internal operations of the progress of each order as well as the ability to give customers updates on their order.
The integration with accounting software is seamless which saves time on uploading data.

New online software can be slower than the desktop version.
Support assistance can sometimes be a difficult process and can be lengthy at times.

The ease of use, great functions for any stock control with loads of modification for all your needs.

Some minor tweaks needed after latest upgrade but were addressed and fixed straight away by Datapel Support Team.

For the most part easy to use after a period steep learning. However assistance from datapel and knowledge base is comprehensive. Excellent tracking of product and audit log to aid issues in the warehouse. Ordering assistant is very useful once set up

Some features can be somewhat buried in the package. Would prefer an easier interface for file exchange like MYOB that can auto match fields. Better consistency on file exchange. Some parts requird Tab Delimited files, some Comma Seperated... but not always obvious which needs what with out experience. If every file exchance had a simple common type like CSV everywhere that would be awesome.

Easy to use with flexibility & Tracks inventory well good line of site on all moving stock.

Ideally for our business we need to do some pre planning/forecasting would have been great. Lots of paper.

it allows me to keep track of products, what's coming and what's going.

there are many steps to take to get to some things which would be the same with most products